TALEOS CONSULTING LIMITED

Business Assurance for Digital Agriculture Transformation

Taleos Consulting helps develop agricultural support frameworks for meeting climate change and biodiversity challenges.
Based on experience in UK and EU agricultural policy delivery and monitoring capabilities, we support the co-development of simple, scalable and dedicated capabilities, thus facilitating a modern approach to funds distribution for the agricultural sector.

Features

• Continuity in Business as Usual (BAU) delivery post EU CAP
• Aiding development of the future agrculture support frameworks
• Co-Development with existing teams of technology capabilities
• Delivery of the new target operating model
• Ensuring services can be delivered at a reasonable cost technically
• Business architecture and capability development
• Land data assurance - Geospatial application submission
• Co-develop intutive and measureable schemes and services
• Simplify and make effcient the claims process journey
• Containerisation and cloud migration of existing and new applications

Benefits

• Continue to operate in the post EU CAP environment
• End-to-end business assurance for new capability development
• New farming support framework designed through Service Design
• Land data assured and geospatial basis implemented
• Assurance retained and changed/new capabilities
• Consistency of capabilities and business process across delivery environment
• New rules and services integrate with existing systems
• In-house Business Assurance Testing (BAT) function
• New schemes and measures are more effective
• Fully supported migration to cloud based technologies

£450.00 to £1,250.00 a unit a day

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at vinay@taleosconsulting.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

561687330163179

Contact

Vinay Dhawan
+44 (0) 203 488 2927
vinay@taleosconsulting.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: We work with our clients to define, develop and help realise their vision, strategies and objectives in the context of clients moving towards new frameworks or cloud based solutions. We work with our clients to help them assess and understand their strategic direction and ensure their investment decisions are aligned to their required strategic outcomes. We help the client design, plan and put together the Portfolio of Programmes and Projects that will deliver the required outcomes. Supporting the client to evaluate the impact of change inherent in implementing new ways of working and to define and execute action plans to help staff on this journey and successfully transition into delivering their services and products.; We use best practice methodologies and a pragmatic approach to architecture as appropriate for the client for designing, planning and to help assure design and delivery. Methodologies include, Agile, Prince 2, TOGAF and recommend bringing Portfolio approach to undertaking programmes and projects that is embedded in the strategic and enterprise level of the organisation.; We commit to transferring our knowledge to the client to enable them to continue the process of managing change.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: Taleos Consulting can design and run training programmes to build our customers’ in-house analytical capabilities, in order to better exploit cloud services data.; We provide user-centric, experiential learning to staff, using live cloud data where possible, to allow analysts to undertake real-world simulations relevant to their job roles.; We provide rapid up-skilling through a number of four-week intensive learning and development courses.
• Training is tied to specific services: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: We work with our clients to consider all elements of business and technology architecture to help plan and manage the design of and migration to future-state operating models. We then help the client define the transition and roadmaps to the future operating model.; We help clients define assumptions and identify and manage risks to transition to cloud-based operating models.; We help clients looking to containerise their applications or migrate to cloud-ready platforms such as Openshift with refactoring the code for the applications. Most native / Java applications will not work on new cloud platforms and the code needs to be refactored and thoroughly tested. Taleos consulting has experience in ensuring that applications are production ready and all existing functionality has been retained when they are moved to the cloud or cloud-ready platforms; We adopt a "Trickle Migration" approach for all complex projects. This allows us to take an incremental approach to migrating data. Rather than aim to complete the whole event in a short time window, a trickle migration involves running the old and new systems in parallel and migrating the data in phases.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: No

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: We help the client by assuring their defined quality assurance standards. We also help clients define quality standards, as required and / or where they might not currently exist.; We provide Quality Assurance using best practice techniques to assess the quality of designs, plans, and oversee the testing strategy and implementation.; We support Performance Testing and Non-functional testing and ensure the application performance is satisfactory with regards the requirements.

Security testing

• Security services: No

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: Yes
• Types of service supported: Buyer hosting or software
• How the support service works: We provide both on-site and offline support to our clients through our helpdesk and first and second line support.; As a small and dedicated organisation, we pride ourselves in our ability to provide our clients with a full hands-on support, ensuring they have the benefit of experts on hand as and when required, as part of the service offering.; We have the ability to provide a full service management team to be based on-site or offsite

Service scope

• Service constraints: None

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: 08:00 to 20:00 on weekdays and 09:00 - 17:00 on weekends
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: No
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: Web chat
• Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support accessibility standard: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Web chat accessibility testing: At Taleos we are committed to ensuring that everyone, regardless of ability, can use our products and services. We are continually working on improving them in line with accessibility standards. For all our web products, we use a number of templates specifically designed with accessibility in mind. All of the coding on our site is done to make it accessible as possible, including images, text, graphics and site structure, as well as enabling inbuilt accessibility components where available.
• Support levels: All Taleos Consulting clients and engagements benefit from a dedicated Technical Account Manager.; Help Desk: A dedicated help desk 9-5 Monday to Friday, however an out of hours number is available 24/7; First and Second line support, usually within 4 hours on weekdays and 8 hours on weekends and public holidays

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  Fighting climate change

  Fighting climate change

  Taleos Business Assurance service helps government agriculture departments develop a a robust and coherent framework of measures to underpin the future agriculture support regime, ensuring delivery of high-quality food production, climate mitigation and adaptation, and nature restoration.; Our capabilities and services underpin the programmes of work being undertaken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a Just Transition to a net zero economy and society, ensuring the journey is fair and creates a better future for everyone.

Pricing

• Price: £450.00 to £1,250.00 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at vinay@taleosconsulting.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.